The Archaeology of Knowledge: And the Discourse on Language

Madness, sexuality, power, knowledge—are these facts of life or simply parts of speech? In a series of works of astonishing brilliance, historian Michel Foucault excavated the hidden assumptions that govern the way we live and the way we think.
 
The Archaeology of Knowledge begins at the level of "things aid" and moves quickly to illuminate the connections between knowledge, language, and action in a style at once profound and personal. A summing up of Foucault's own methodological assumptions, this book is also a first step toward a genealogy of the way we live now.
 
Challenging, at times infuriating, it is an absolutely indispensable guide to one of the most innovative thinkers of our time.

• The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences
• Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977
• The History of Sexuality, Vol. 2: The Use of Pleasure
• The History of Sexuality, Vol. 3: The Care of the Self
• Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison
• Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
• The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception
• The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1: An Introduction
• The Foucault Reader
• Of Grammatology